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Computational and Digital Frontiers

Theme 5: Computational and Digital Frontiers

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Thematic research encompassing ‘Computational and Digital Frontiers’ includes:  

  • applications of data science
  • advanced landscape GIS
  • modern spatial and multivariate statistics
  • remote-sensing and geophysical prospection
  • agent-based modelling
  • human use of space
  • data infrastructure

Selected current and recent research projects 

  • Automating Site Detection
  • The Chios Emborio Hinterland Project
  • Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL 1.0 & 2.0)
  • Computational Modelling and Human Use of Space
  • From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory (COREX)
  • Cross-disciplinary frameworks for studying visitor experiences with digitally mediated museum exhibits
  • Empowering heritage: understanding the cultural costs of South Africa’s energy futures
  • Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM)
  • Micropasts Knowledge Exchange
  • Re-thinking the Green Revolution in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries) (MEDGREENREV)
  • Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Landscape of Hertfordshire
  • Transforming Data Re-Use in Archaeology (TETRARCHS)
  • Towards Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation
     

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